CFP: Harvard Workshop on Animal Agriculture from the Middle East to Asia
Workshop on Animal Agriculture from the Middle East to Asia Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA May 11-12, 2017 The Harvard South Asia Institute, the Harvard Law School Animal Law & Policy Program, and the Harvard Law School Islamic Legal Studies Program: Law and Social Change are pleased to announce an upcoming workshop on Animal Agriculture […]
CFP: Environmental Justice 2017
CFP: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE 2017: LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, 6-8 NOVEMBER 2017 In 1997, the University of Melbourne hosted a major international conference on ‘Environmental Justice: Global Ethics for the 21stCentury’. In 2017, the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney will host an anniversary event, focused on both a retrospective look […]
Call for Papers – Animal Studies Journal
The Animal Studies Journal has just released a general call for papers – see pdf asj-call-for-papers-2016
Exhibition Call: ‘Animal Intersections’
Expressions of interest sought for the curated exhibition ‘Animal Intersections’ which will occur alongside the conference at the University of Adelaide July 3-5, 2017. Exhibition Dates: 3-15 July, 2017 Venue: The Mill, Adelaide To intersect means to come across another being on their course, to occasionally even intercept this other. An intersection is the fact […]
CFP: Animal Sanctuaries – Animal Studies Journal
Call for Papers: Special Edition of the Animal Studies Journal ‘Animal Sanctuaries’ Guest Editor: Elan Abrell We seek articles that consider animal sanctuaries as unique sites of human-animal interaction that both influence and are influenced by the way animals are treated and understood in larger contexts. How do animal sanctuaries contribute to the broader animal […]
Call for Papers: AASA Conference 2017 ‘Animal Intersections’
July 3-5 at University of Adelaide, Australia Increasingly, Animal Studies turns towards the question of intersections: where, how and why human and animal lives intersect. Intersectionality offers us a way to explore interconnectedness to advance our understanding of the complex ways we relate to and interact with other animals and each other. Key note speakers […]
Call for Papers: Hearing
‘Hearing’ 19 and 20 May 2017 at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow With confirmed plenary speaker Cary Wolfe (Rice University) As well as being a celebration of the 10th anniversary of the first ever British Animal Studies Network meeting, this is our final engagement with the senses in Glasgow: following ‘Looking’, ‘Feeling’, ‘Tasting’ and ‘Smelling’, ‘Hearing’ […]
Call for papers – Art and Sustainability in the Anthropocene
We welcome papers that analyse the effectiveness of addressing sustainability and climate change within the art world through case studies of contemporary art. Must an artist also be a political activist to have an impact, or can an effective work be primarily aesthetically driven? How do we gauge effectiveness July 12-14, University of Glasgow. The […]
CFP for a themed issue of Image & Text: “Visual Cultures of Race and Animality”
Call for Papers Image & Text no. 30 December 2017 Issue Editors: Dr Benita de Robillard and Dr Ruth Lipschitz Article submission: 30 April 2017 Publication: 30 December 2017 – January 2018 Length: 5000-7000 words All submissions and general enquiries should be sent directly to both of the issue editors: benita.derobillard@wits.ac.za ruthl@uj.ac.za Themed Issue: “Visual […]
Co-Existence Art Exhibition: Call for Artist Entries
“Animals are born, are sentient and are mortal. In these things they resemble man. … in their habits, in their time, in their physical capacities, they differ from man. They are both alike and unlike.” (John Berger, Why Look at Animals?) The relationship between animals and humans is complex, varied and a long one that […]